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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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21 May 2025
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Ellie Williams: Professional Street Sweeper by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Sep 2023
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Sequel to Toointojoelmiller's wonderful fic blind to it all.
This will definitely not make sense unless you read that first.
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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30 Apr 2025
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For all the jokes she’s made about Joel’s name twin, on the day Joel Hendrix is brought back beaten and bloody in a body bag, Ellie isn’t feeling very light-hearted.
Especially when the body is followed by his sobbing daughter, only a year older than Ellie herself. She keeps her eyes on Tanner as she staggers by, held up by Tommy, who was sent out on the rescue patrol to bring the Hendrixes back after they broke protocol and split from their group to go after an elk and then failed to check back in.
Apparently they found something significantly worse than a lucky hunt in the middle of winter.
(what if the fireflies killed the wrong joel?)
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23 Apr 2025
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expect(ing)(ations) by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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“And what if…” She pauses, biting the inside of her cheek for a moment. “What if I wanna be a mom?” She asks, and when she looks up, his face has gone soft in a way that makes her feel so loved and so warm inside.
“Well, I think you’d be one hell of a mom,” he says, and she smiles a little shyly, her chest feeling fuller at the vote of confidence from someone who would know. “More ways to have kids than from scratch, you know,” he says, indicating her with his mug with a small smile. “As you’re well-aware of.”
“I know,” she says, and she does. As an adoptee, it had been one of her first thoughts, but she wants, without really being able to explain why, to have at least one from babyhood. It was a vague idea she’d first felt when she held Maria and Tommy’s baby, Oliver, after he was born, the rightness of a warm little bundle in her arms.
And there’s another advantage to building one herself.
“I think my immunity would be passed on if I had kids,” she says, and Joel sits a little straighter.
(set about ten years after the original storyline) (ellie, now grown and married, decides she wants to have a baby so she can pass her immunity on to her kid)
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- Part 1 of what to expect
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19 Apr 2025
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“You wanna tell me about this infected you and Dina decided to lie to the council about?” Joel asks as he carefully guides the needle through her skin. She winces but doesn’t flinch, breathing through the pinprick of the needle each time it pokes through. “They clocked that immediately, by the way.”
“Council sessions are confidential,” she says dryly. “Privacy privilege to ensure honesty.”
They both look to the other and exchange a mutual raised eyebrows look about how that tends to go in practice given how quickly gossip spreads in Jackson, and for a moment, a single wonderful, fiercely addictive moment, they're a unit again. She's fifteen, she can tell herself he's never lied about anything except her birthday treat to keep it a surprise, and the only tension between them is the words they haven't put to what he is to her.
But the moment pops like a soap bubble, and she's nineteen and angry again, and the contentment fizzles to nothing like a sparkler burning out, leaving her blinking at black spots in the absence of its light.
(2x01 except i make them talk to each other by employing mortal peril)
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17 Apr 2025
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Eremophobia by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Apr 2025
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It’s alright, she thinks, if her life does come to a close in the middle of Wyoming with nothing but the howling wolves to keep her company, because at least then there was someone to sing her to sleep one last time.
She wishes it could’ve been Joel, his warm lilting timbre more of a quiet hum than actual singing, but she’ll settle for this.
She can play pretend.
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Ellie’s first chaperoned group patrol ends in disaster. A classic Ellie whump with a much-needed side of Joel being her parent.Series
- Part 1 of Neurosis
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14 Apr 2025
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Doom comes to Hawkins, Indiana. Population est. 30,000.
It’s cold, that’s all, and the breeze is kicking up. That’s why Steve feels the chill go up his spine like someone dropped an ice-cube down his back.
“Why wouldn’t I be real, El?”
“The Aboleth got you.”
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06 Mar 2025
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I'm biting my own tongue, I am my fathers lost son by Reonnex
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
06 Dec 2024
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Maybe it was stupid of Wylan. An impulsive decision. But he didn’t care. Something snapped in his mind that instant. He grabbed a flash bomb out from his bag and ran past Kaz, faintly hearing the man call out for him. Or was that Jesper’s voice? Wylan didn’t have time to think as the squaller got closer and closer to Inej and he was running out of time. “Get down!” He yelled out, praying to Ghezen that Inej would react fast enough. Wylan threw the bomb in their direction and shut his eyes in hopes the effect wouldn’t be as blinding. It went off with a loud boom immediately knocking everyone off their feet.
Or, What if Wylan gets captured instead of Inej?
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08 Dec 2024
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i don't want to be the owner of your fantasy (i just wanna be a part of your family) by bloomstarswrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
02 Nov 2023
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Ellie is content like this, Joel busy doing something, and her just sitting with him, watching. It reminds her of after Silver Lake, when Joel would drag her around because she couldn’t stand being without him. She thinks back to the first time she woke up and couldn’t feel Joel’s presence at her back. She had rolled over, expecting to find him sitting across from her, stoking the fire, only to notice that Joel’s sleeping bag was empty, and he was nowhere to be seen. She remembers the fear, that all encompassing fear she’d felt thinking that David had come and snatched him away from her, just like he snatched everything else from her. That fear had been mixed with white hot anger, and she had clung onto her sleeping bag so tight, she’d almost ripped holes in it. She’d cried, hard, and only calmed down once Joel had returned. She remembers the trembling, and the shaking, but mostly the feeling of being held by strong, yet gentle arms. She also remembers when she came to later that night, and apologised to Joel for acting so childish.
“You have nothin’ to apologise for, baby,” he’d said, running his fingers through her hair in a way that always helps her calm down, even now. “You’ve done nothin’ wrong,”.
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26 Jun 2024
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I Told The Doc I Didn’t Want Brain Surgery, But He Changed My Mind by joschmo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
14 Jun 2023
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Joel wakes up in the hospital too late. Marlene says the brain surgery already happened. The doctor cored out a chunk of Ellie for testing. The good doctor is going to take out another and another and another until they have a cure: vivisecting Ellie through millimeters of gray matter. Ellie will be unconscious the whole time. Marlene assures him it will be completely painless as they turn his smart vibrant girl into a vegetable.
Joel disagrees. Vehemently.
Ellie's life is saved but she can't communicate or move the same ways. Now both Joel and Ellie work to do more than just endure and survive.
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26 Jun 2024
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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26 Feb 2024
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Ellie is aware of what's going on in the Firefly hospital, but that doesn't mean she can do anything about it. Not until Joel helps ensure she gets a choice.
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Then a low voice, one she would know anywhere. One she would recognize at the end of the world. She screamed at her body to move, but the most she could manage was a flex of her fingers and toes, a quiet moan she meant to be Joel’s name.
“Free her,” he ordered, his voice so low, so quiet, one she had never heard before. Maybe this was the voice that he’d used back in the old days, back when he was someone who killed innocent people. Someone Maria had warned Ellie about.
Ellie should have been afraid of it. She found she couldn’t summon the fucks. Joel was her person, and if he was here, using that voice, with a gun, that had to mean something bad was happening. Joel wasn’t one to act before he thought, no matter the situation. Joel didn’t kill innocent people anymore. If he told her to stay, she stayed. If he told her to run, she ran. And if he told her to shoot, she’d shoot. No questions asked.
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- Part 1 of what dads do for daughters
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20 Feb 2024
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“Oh c’mon,” she’d wheedled two weeks ago, “I’m not a baby, Joel. Plenty of the other 16 year olds go out without their parents.”
It hits him in a cold wave of terror now. There are other 16 year olds who go out without their parents, yeah.
There are also 16 year olds who don’t come back to their parents when they do.
He’s at the gate faster than he’d ever thought possible, and he’s nearly frantic as he scans faces, looking for Ellie’s cowboy hat. She’s taken to accessorizing it recently, and he’s searching desperately for a glance of a bright blue jay feather tucked into a brim because “it’s a blue jay kinda day, Joel.” He pulls himself up as tall as he can get, scanning faces for the third, fourth, fifth time.
No hat.
No blue jay feather.
No Ellie.
(Ellie gets badly hurt on a patrol, and Joel relives some horrible memories)
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20 Feb 2024
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It’s across his desk that the first reports of the Fireflies and their miracle cure comes. He handles most intelligence on them. It’s partially down to his own interests; after Anna’s betrayal, he’d needed to make sure that no one else would ever be able to find out exactly how much information ended up spoken fuckdrunk and passed along.
It’s because of this access that he’s the first one who puts eyes on a file about the subject that allowed the Fireflies to get their miracle cure. There’s no names–well, no names that are true, he can tell from even a cursory glance–but there are notes that start to scratch at memories.
Female, 14 years old, raised in the Boston QZ, mother a Firefly, father unknown, 5’1”, 94 pounds at the start and 83 by the end of testing, medical history unknown by virtue of being an orphan.
It’s a rough sketch, a vague idea of a person that could fit anyone.
But somehow, in the part of himself that’s made him one of the best spymasters FEDRA has in its employ, he just knows.
The Firefly’s miracle girl is his daughter.
(au in which ellie's father is a high-up fedra official who decides he can use her immunity for his own ends)
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20 Feb 2024
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boozy blues by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Sep 2023
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Ellie does not care for house parties.
When she decided to take community college classes, she had absolutely zero plans to attend any parties. She works full time, goes to school, and has an actual life these days. There’s no time or energy for shit like this. And she doesn’t like them anyway.
Buuuut, when Dina and Jesse are on their fourth “break” of the semester, and Dina tells Ellie she desperately needs a “girls night” to cheer her up, Ellie is hard pressed to say no to anything she asks.
(Ellie attends a party and makes the mistake of trusting a stranger)
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- Part 4 of adult Ellie verse
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20 Feb 2024
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They’re towards the end of clearing the old shopping center when he loses track of Ellie. He opens his mouth to call for her, but just then, he hears her, her voice changed from when she speaks to him, taking on a stern, unyielding quality Tommy teasingly calls her “general mode.” He takes his cue from that, creeping closer and avoiding debris on the floor as he makes his way to a window to get a look at what’s going on in the direction he heard her from.
Looking through what’s left of the grimy glass, he sees a set of five men with a hungry, rangy look about them.
(while on what should be an easy practice patrol, joel and ellie run into trouble, and joel gets to relive one of the worst days of his life)
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20 Feb 2024
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an eye for an eye makes everyone blind by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jul 2023
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She must be reading it wrong, but she swears Abby almost seems anxious. It’s not unbelievable, maybe she’s just uncomfortable around strangers the way Ellie is.
Still, something about her seems almost anticipatory. Like she’s got something up her sleeve. It’s hard to explain, just this odd feeling in her stomach.
Joel told her that’s called intuition. He also said to always listen to it.
(AU where Abby comes to Jackson to kill Ellie instead of Joel)
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20 Feb 2024
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cyclical by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2023
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It’s a bit like trying on an old jacket, settling into Jackson. The general shape of it is familiar, even comforting in its own way, but there’s an adjustment period, a little breaking-in until everything fits like it should.
Well, it’s like an old jacket for him. The way Ellie looks sometimes, completely bewildered and turning to him for reassurance or clarification, he thinks it’s a bit more like trying on a Halloween costume for her.
Tommy and Maria had brought them their meals at first, and he’d at least been gratified to get some real food into her. After Silver Lake, she’d been off all meat for a long while, and in the hospital, exhaustion and pain had stolen what little appetite she’d managed to recover by that point. There’d been a little adjustment period here in Jackson, when they fell back on their routine of him taking bites of meat first to reassure her they were safe, but she’s slowly begun building back some flesh on her skinny little self, and it’s like he can feel a bit of his own restlessness settle with each plate of cheesy potatoes she downs with relish.
(settling into jackson goes well, giving joel and ellie their first taste of peace)
(and then someone sees ellie's bite scars)
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20 Feb 2024
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In those long days alone in the cabin, the TV was noise and light and teacher and babysitter and friend all at the same time. El felt like she was learning a lot. And one fateful day, El learns about Thanksgiving.
Five Thanksgivings and sort-of Thanksgivings in her life. Goes from her time in the cabin to her as an adult.
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20 Feb 2024
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a flower bud in concrete by mirananananan
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2023
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Joel almost chokes on his dinner when he follows her eyes and realizes what she’s talking about. “What…a baby?” he coughs, clearing his throat. “Think I’m a little old for that,” he says, testing the waters. “Do you?”
“Sometimes I wonder,” she says a bit sheepishly, avoiding his eyes in favor of looking back toward her food. She’s not sure what drove her to start this conversation in the first place; it’s been a topic she’s carefully avoided for months. Joel has never brought up having kids and, up until recently, it had felt like they were juggling Ellie constantly as if she were a newborn herself as she adjusted to life here and started sleeping through the night and not clinging to them every time they left the comfort of their home. She knows it’s a long shot, but it’s the first time in her adult life she feels like she’s really had a chance. It’s the first time she’s felt safe enough to even consider the possibility.
or, the miller family grows within the safe walls of jackson.
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20 Feb 2024